Good day, CIOs. Capital One Financial Corp. didn’t kid around when it got that memo that said every company is now a software company. Under pressure from other banks and fintech startups, Capital One currently employs 9,000 technology staff, up from 2,500 in 2011, CIO Journal’s Sara Castellanos reports. The bank now builds customer-facing products such as its chatbot Eno with in-house talent instead of solely relying on outsiders.

A new creed for business. “I think the great separator between the companies that survive in this digital transformation and the companies that are roadkill will be their ability to attract and retain great technology talent,” CIO Rob Alexander says.

New roles in IT. Once, Capital One relied on IT staff, project managers and business systems analysts to perform such tasks as integrating third-party commercial products. Now, it’s hiring software engineers, data engineers, machine learning and cloud infrastructure experts and other technical talent, Mr. Alexander said. It’s also moving to the cloud. (Read the full story here in Journal Reports.)

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Facebook to move enterprise-collaboration platform off Facebook domain. In an effort to separate its workplace collaboration service, used by companies such as Walmart Inc., Chevron Corp., from its main social network, Facebook Inc. in 2019 is moving Workplace for Facebook to Workplace.com.

Calming customer fears. The company says the move have been in the works for months, but CNBC reports on how the company reached out to Walmart on September 28, the day after a breach was detected on the main social network, assuring the retail giant that their Workplace data has not been exposed.

Quote. "We have been in a position where even though we are separate from them, it's a bit difficult to have that story when we are hosted on the Facebook.com domain," Luke Taylor, product manager for Workplace by Facebook, told CNBC.

Foldable phones? At least five of the world’s best-selling phone makers, including Apple Inc., have sought patents for folding models, The WSJ's Dan Strumpf reports. Huawei Technologies Co. is targeting a release for next year.

Thought $1000 was high for a phone? Analysts expect a folding device to retail for double the price, partially because a more flexible active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, or AMOLED, display is difficult to source. Such phones also may require a more powerful battery and a significant reworking of the device’s inner hardware to accommodate the redesign.

Google employees takes to the streets. Google employees in worldwide are staging walkouts Thursday calling for better diversity and protesting how the company has handled recent episodes of sexual harassment, Reuters reports. The New York Times last week reported that the company in 2014 gave a $90 million exit package to former executive Andy Rubin after he was accused of sexual harassment. More walkouts are planned in the U.S.

#MeToo on the blockchain. To create an inviolable record of episodes of sexual harassment and abuse, activists in China are keeping stories on a blockchain ledger, the Harvard Business Review reports.

Future at the doorstep. For $10 a month residents in the San Francisco Bay Area can sign up for a delivery by delivery by robot service offered by startup Starship Technologies, maker of a cute little delivery bot on wheels. MIT Technology Review has more.

Father of the web less than pumped. “I am disappointed with the current state of the Web,” Tim Berners-Lee tells Reuters. “We have lost the feeling of individual empowerment and to a certain extent also I think the optimism has cracked.”

Daily Musk. The Tesla Inc. CEO bought $10 million of shares in Tesla on Monday and plans to spend another $20 million on stock in the company, The WSJ's Micah Maidenberg reports.

At Berkeley, it’s big data on campus. The University of California, Berkeley on Thursday announced plans to create a new division focused on data science, which school officials called the biggest reorganization in several decades. Berkeley’s goal isn’t just to train data scientists, says The Journal's Douglas Belkin, but to get students from other disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, to also learn what a data orientation can do for their work.

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The Affordable Care Act’s sixth open-enrollment season begins Thursday, marking a test of the health law’s stability following a series of Republican efforts to roll it back. (WSJ)